Rome Goddess principally associated with love, beauty and fertility.
The wood used is the old Italian spruce an sycamore.
Oklahoma Centennial project inspired of Native American culture.
The violin made in honor the statehood celebration of Oklahoma's first 100 years.
The wood used is the old Carpathian spruce and sycamore from Tatras mountains.
Prof. Stanislaw Mardula in Kener's Art College in Zakopane in 1996.
The wood used is the old Carpathian spruce and sycamore from Tatras mountains.
In art and music as well creators try to find new ways of expression
to shock the viewer;new directions are made. The violinmakers try to be noticed
in the artistic environment of the 20th century as well, but they hardly create
any new ideas. Musicians prefer possessing an old looking, valuable and expensive
classical instrument than the modern ones, what disables luthiers to carry into
effect their modern ideas. It is known that sound of the instrument is connected
with its shape and construction, so musicians and luthiers are afraid to make
experiments and prefer well checked models. It is obvious, because for each
of them Old CremonSchool is still one of the most important starting-pints
of sound and appearance. Antonio Stradivari's and Guarneri del Gesu's
instruments are the best examples. The first well known violin-makers,
who were brave enough to walk the way of avant-garde and to show
completely new forms of instruments, Francois Chanot, who built violins
without corners, similar in shape to a guitar [violin by F. Chanot] and
outstanding Polish violinmaker Tomasz Panufnik, (1876- 1951), who
presented a new secession pattern of violins, and he described about it:
"it is special for a pitch of dramatic sound"
[T. Panufnik and new secession model]. Panufnik built a quartet
in that style, which is now in the Museum of Instruments in Poznan.
other think it is just a hand craft. This way of thinking, that the violin making is nothing more but only the hand craft can be caused by small
knowledge about it. Factories and manufactures, which are making instruments in large amounts, contributed to treating profession
as a hand craft.